I think theres going to be alot of people like me about, they'll likely be somewhere from 17 to their early 20's. Of course I have only lived through one decade fully so if you have more experience tell me. What happened during the nineties?, did anything really happen or was society too involved in breaking down divisions we have between us to move forward. You can't call someone a black person without a sea of heads spinning round to correct you for you "mistake" in supposedly seeing them only for their colour, when all you are doing is noticing a most obvious feature of their immediate being. Structures everywhere are being brought down to the ground, the structures that give us places in society are blurred or overcomplicated. You go to work and you're not a motor mechanic but a Diagnostic Technician. A what!?, That could be anything!. You ask a friend what job they do and it turns out he's an Engineer............an "Engineer" who refills up the city's empty coffee machines for a job. Surely structures in society are not confined to the people themselves. Look at the physical structures surrounding yourself. Often buildings, parks, houses erected in later years really lack any feeling. For the Millennium there were so many commemoratory things that could have been built but that all to often towns and city's simply found big rocks and put plaques on them the "celibrate" the occasion, that sums it up really. The faceless shopping mall architicture that is everywhere in its wipe-clean-pastel-tone way show this breakdown of indentity. So I do look back at past eras(what else can we compare ourselves to) and see almost every new generation has a look. People have mostly celebrated the future and put the past in the past. The mass rebuilding of Britain, between the fifties and sixties saw some amazing places built. I totally agree the most of it was ugly as f**k, but the sharp,hard edged intruders had a real presence and force behind them that todays carefully-planned eye-friendly mush lacks by the ton. These, as our surroundings do go further than just sight (Feng Shui etc... anyone?) and they don't say much for a state of mind do they. Once you start getting interested in this stuff you see so many links. Is it any wonder that with all the unspoken laws hanging over us (the way we make our world look,both physically and in our forced mindsets) that so many feel a weak sense of identity and culture. I'm saying this stuff, I'm nineteen and my arguement does not arise from a rose-tinted-glasses point of view. I wasn't there, use that against me if you like, as I want to know what you think. My next post will perhaps be a little more B+S inspired and I won't have two bugs making eyes at each other on the monitor as I write. James Danson-Hatcher. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+